brown actual ly outspent grosso. while ethics may have been the underlying theme, it was also front and center in changes in the city charter voted in. among them, a ballot initiative allowing the city council to vote out a member with issues of personal conduct or dereliction of duty. and there was another change approved by voters. that would be language allowing felons to be removed from office and barred from reseeking that office at some point later. those were the biggest changes from the election, an election with immediate and actual bearing on the current council makeup as well as its future. five other members among them, as you said, vincent orange, were reelected to their seats on the city council. live outside the wilson building, derrick ward, news 4. >> derrick, thank you. >>> bill mendelson is now officially chairman of the d.c. council. he won the special election for the seat with 52% of the vote. mendelson has filled in as chair for the last five months following the resignation of former chair kwa